Isaiah 64:6
Old Testament • 12 words with Strong's data
"But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away."
Word-by-Word Analysis
טָמֵא
ṭâmêʼ
to be foul, especially in a ceremial or moral sense (contaminated)
דָּבָר
dâbâr
a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
צְדָקָה
tsᵉdâqâh
rightness (abstractly), subjectively (rectitude), objectively (justice), morally (virtue) or figuratively (prosperity)
בָּלַל
bâlal
to overflow (specifically with oil.); by implication, to mix; to fodder
עָלֶה
ʻâleh
a leaf (as coming up on a tree); collectively, foliage
דָּמָה
dâmâh
to compare; by implication, to resemble, liken, consider
רוּחַ
rûwach
wind; by resemblance breath, i.e. a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the ...
לָקַח
lâqach
to take (in the widest variety of applications)
סוּר
çûwr
to turn off (literal or figurative)
Key Terms in This Verse
צְדָקָה tsᵉdâqâh
rightness (abstractly), subjectively (rectitude), objectively (justice), morally (virtue) or figuratively (prosperity)
Study H6666 →בָּלַל bâlal
to overflow (specifically with oil.); by implication, to mix; to fodder
Study H1101 →רוּחַ rûwach
wind; by resemblance breath, i.e. a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the sky; by resemblance spirit, but only of a rational...
Study H7307 →טָמֵא ṭâmêʼ
to be foul, especially in a ceremial or moral sense (contaminated)
Study H2930 →דָּבָר dâbâr
a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
Study H1697 →Cross References
For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the angel.
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
Hearken unto me, ye stouthearted, that are far from righteousness:
Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.
And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they?
Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.
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